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Saturday, September 04, 2010 #

Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2010 -- #941

In this Issue: Michael Washington, SilverLaw, Nigel Sampson(-2-), Mohamed Mosallem, Vikram Pendse, Ward Bell, Gill Cleeren, Jag Reehal, and Enrico Gebauer.

Shoutouts:

Victor Gaudioso announces a Texas-sized event: Sharing in the Light – I dive into Silverlight Development with Blend – Two day event in Dallas Sept. 25 & 26

From SilverlightCream.com:

Simple Silverlight Configurator/Pivot (View Model/MVVM): Michael Washington has a cool app up using ViewModel/MVVM that allows users to query a collection via a set of sliders... all the code, instructins, and even some goodness from Adam Kinney.
HyperlinkButton Style - Silverlight 4: SilverLaw has a very nice-looking Hyperlink button up in the Expression Gallery for us to download and use....
WP7 - Quick Mail: Nigel Sampson has two more WP7 tutorials up ... this first looks like a winner... a quick email app... just the thing to snap up when you have to send a quick email out.
WP7 - Snowfall: Nigel Sampson's second WP7 tutorial is more for the 'works' than the product... UserControl snowflakes and some wind thrown in.
Silverlight 4.0 Tutorial (7 of N): Visual States: Mohamed Mosallem has his next installment (of N) up on the Registration Booth app he's building ... spending a bunch of time in this one in Blend with Visual States.
Silverlight On Mobile : Application Bar for your Windows Phone 7 Application: Vikram Pendse has a post up about the AppBar on WP7 with tons of information, hints, and tips... definitely one to read if you're doing WP7 work.
DevForce Meets Mvvm Light: Ward "Loud LasVegas Jacket Guy" Bell took aim at Laurent Bugnion's MVVMLight as a demo of Ward's DevForce product ... go grab a copy of DevForce, Laurent's MVVMLight, and Ward's implementation and curl up for some good reading...
Building an app marketplace with MEF (MEF/Silverlight 4 tutorial): Gill Cleeren shares and discusses the app he built for a presentation... a marketplace app in Silverlight 4 using MEF.
How To Refactor And Build Better Microsoft Silverlight Applications: I can't say enough about this article by Jag Reehal from June ... read it, build the app, get your head around the concepts... good stuff... thanks Jag!
Binding EventArgs to Command: I found this post by Enrico Gebauer rattling around in a folder, and after looking, I realized I'd never posted it... it's about Behaviors and Blend and ViewModels and handling UI events without slamming a bunch of code in the codebehind file.